The live auditorium, backstage, applause and shouts are the best feedback from the audience to the stage performers.
Qin Jian stood up and turned to the audience.
"Wow————————"
The waves of applause made him feel that reality was suddenly near and far away.
At the moment when he was about to bow down and step off the stage, he suddenly felt reluctant to leave the arena.
He has made it clear in his heart that no matter the result, after this Chopin Competition, his piano competition career should be over.
Most of his achievements so far have come from major competitions.
From the Huayun Competition to the Chopin Competition, from Yanjing to Warsaw, it was the piano competition that gave him the opportunity to become famous.
This next bow is his last bow as a player to bid farewell to the competition.
Under everyone's attention, Qin Jian looked around the stage.
Finally, his eyes returned to the audience.
He saw He Jing, her parents, Liao Linjun, the old bartender, Shen Qingci, old Assad, old Harlem...
He remembered this moment forever in his mind.
"Thanks."
He murmured in his mouth, not knowing how much emotion this thank you contained.
bow.
Ninety degrees, bowing to bid farewell to the arena with the highest stage etiquette of a performer.
This is Qin Jian's only way of expression that can give back to the stage and the audience besides playing.
Get up.
Turn around and leave.
“Wow————————————————”
The last wave of applause was for him to practice.
"See you on the next stage."
He turned away and raised his left hand.
‘152843’, clearly visible.
...
With player No. 57 leaving the field, the game entered its final and intense stage.
The host came on stage to announce the last contestant to appear.
"The last player in this round is player No. 66 from Austria..."
...
Qin Jian returned to the backstage and met Adams who was about to appear.
This scene that was supposed to happen a year and a half ago finally happened today.
Two of the best Mozart players of the younger generation met again at the Chopin Competition as fate would have it.
This time, no one chose to withdraw from the competition.
The two looked at each other, Qin Jian made no expression, and then walked past Adams.
Before the results of the game were announced, it was still a barbaric game for him.
Adams stayed where he was for a moment and walked directly onto the stage.
Rejecting all reporters' requests for interviews, Qin Jian, accompanied by Duan Ran, went to the open-air rooftop in a corner of the backstage.
The evening breeze blew by, and he felt that his breathing became much easier.
He could finally put away the memory of Xiao Yi's score in his mind.
Fortunately this time, he didn't have a strong feeling of vomiting.
Duan Ran guessed that Qin Jian needed to be quiet for a while, so she didn't nibble and just stood aside quietly holding his hand.
Warsaw is ablaze at night.
An hour later, another name will be written into the history of this city.
History will always remember only the winners.
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On the stage, Xiao Yi's fifth performance was already a third of the way through.
Adams's first movement was played very smoothly, with coherent playing and musicality throughout the entire performance.
But after listening to Qin Jian's performance, many viewers in the audience will have such a feeling.
In terms of the overall cooperation between Adams and the orchestra, except for passages with particularly difficult technical difficulties, it is almost impossible to hear the subjectivity of his piano in the symphony.
This problem is not that the audience calls it true, but that the audience has auditory memory, and Qin Jian's Xiao Yi is still in their minds.
But objectively speaking, this is not Adams' problem.
Adams was only a solo piano player.
This is true for every contestant in every competition, and many performers who will become masters in the future will inevitably have this problem during the final stage.
Because they do not have enough energy at this stage to fully understand the relationship between the conductor, the symphony orchestra, and the soloist.
Players with orchestra concert experience can understand the personalities of the orchestra and conductor in just one rehearsal, and then quickly integrate into it based on their own experience.
But they can only integrate at this stage and cannot replace the conductor's position as the lead singer.
Regardless of whether it is this final or previous finals, the young contestants only have one chance to cooperate with the competition orchestra. They may have performed some outstanding performances with other symphony orchestras before the competition.
But that was only after countless rehearsals and co-performances before going on stage. The conductors would discuss performance strategies or coordinate with each other during the many rehearsals.
But Marek will not compromise for any player on the field. He must ensure that the orchestra is in a completely neutral position.
Adams was a well-known and renowned pianist, but he was not a conductor.
A piano soloist's schedule does not include the task of memorizing orchestra scores.
That's the job of command.
Adams is the epitome of all players. No player can completely memorize the 40-minute and hundreds-of-page orchestra score in his mind.
...
Maybe someone can.
Everyone has the trump card, just in different ways.
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While listening backstage, Adams speculated whether Qin Jian had mastered Xiao Yi's score. Ever since this idea came to his mind, he felt that it was the case.
Because the information he obtained over the past year showed that Qin Jian already had his own orchestra and had rehearsed The Magic Flute, so he was invited to participate in the German New Voice Opera Competition at the end of this year.
So Qin Jian is already an out-and-out commander.
Playing behind Qin Jian again, Adams didn't know if he was really unlucky.
But having reached this point, all he could do was try his best to hold down the last axis.
This time he came to the Chopin Competition to prove himself. He wanted everyone to know how a pianist expresses music.
Just like at this moment, he was not affected by his thoughts before taking the stage.
It was enough for him to play steadily as he expected.
...
The first movement ended perfectly, and he started the second movement.
At the beginning of the second movement, Adams showed the stage qualities of a famous pianist.
His body, eyes, and the wavy sound of the piano under his fingers all reveal the orchestral elegance of young Chopin.
Paired with his aristocratic appearance, the poet's heart and passion hidden in the music gradually emerged.
His theme is brilliant, and the subpart is full of melancholy. The two set off each other, showing a clear sadness.
The beauty settles in the tranquility, and the dense and smooth notes are mixed with his reflection on music.
When calm self-confidence is reflected in a noble charm, the moving charm can reach the extreme of musical language.
Adams's second movement ended with the audience in a state of disbelief.
Compared with Qin Jian, his second movement is full of human affairs and love affairs.
...
The music reaches the third movement, and Adams once again shows his trump card.
Asymmetrical playing method.
The mood of the swirling mazurka sometimes speeds up in his hands, sometimes casually, and the free speed switching can be said to be arbitrary.
Under his performance, the time and space of the stadium seemed to have returned to 40 years ago.